Adobe cannot be bothered to deliver a performant Flash plugin for regular OS X or Linux boxes, what makes you think they could do it for a device with just a fr

Adobe cannot be bothered to deliver a performant Flash plugin for regular OS X or Linux boxes, what makes you think they could do it for a device with just a fraction of the power? And I’m not talking about just video playback here, Flash demands boat loads of performance for the simplest kinds of animation and graphic display. Even if Apple didn't care about control, there would still be excellent reasons to not bring Flash onto their mobile platforms; because Flash is a crash prone performance hog that would suck the life out of the device's battery.